Franklin P. Metcalf

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1939–40:

METCALF, FRANKLIN P.:  Appointed for the preparation of a monograph on the flora of the Province of Fukien, China; tenure, twelve months from July 1, 1940.

Born June 10, 1892, at Oberlin, Ohio.  Education:  Oberlin College, A.B., 1913; Harvard University, 1928–29, 1939–40; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1931.

Instructor in Botany, 1916–17, Cornell University; Member of the Biological Survey, 1917–18, 1919–20, Assistant Biologist, 1921–23, United States Department of Agriculture; Professor of Botany, 1923–29, Fukien Christian University; Research Fellow, 1928–29, China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation; Assistant in the Herbarium, 1929–30, Arnold Arboretum; Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium, 1931—, Lingnan University.

Publications:  Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Herbaceous Plants, Lingnan Campus and Vicinity (with others), 1937. Articles in Rhodora, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Handbook of Fukien, Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Fukien Christian University, China Journal, Lingnan Science Journal, Technical Bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, Hongkong Naturalist, Lingnan Agricultural Journal, Sunyatsenia, Philippine Journal of Science, Tokyo Botanical Magazine.